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No. (3,234. Patented Nov. l, I898.

A. BOSANKD.

BOTTLE WASHEB.

(Application filed. Dec. 9, 1897.)

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A. BOSANKO.

BOTTL-E WASHER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER BOSANKO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JEREMIAH KEMPENAAR, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-WASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,234, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed December 9, 1897. Serial No. 661,283. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: stationary brushes. Fig. 9 is a plan View of Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BOSANKO, a detached deflector. a citizen of the United States, residingat New Referring to the drawings, in which like York, (Mariners Harbor,) Richmond county, numbers of reference indicate like parts 5 5 State of New York, have invented certain throughout, 1 is a tub or vessel of suitable new and useful Improvements in Bottleconstruction, within and above which the aplVashers, of which the following is such a paratus is located and which is adapted to full, clear, and exact description as will enreceive and carry off the waste water as it able any one skilled in the art to which it apflows from the bottles and cleaning devices. 1o pertains to make and use the same, reference 2 is a water main or supply, having a hand being had to the accompanying drawings, valve 3 for controlling the flow of water. The forming part of this specification. main 2 extends within the tub or receiving My invention relates to improvements in vessel 1, and at suitable intervals it is tapped machines for washing and cleaning bottles or by upright pipes 4 4, which extend up to near 15 the like by the use of water and scrubbing or the top thereof, at which point they are each cleaning devices. provided with a horizontally-extending por- The particular objects of the invention are tion 5, (see Figs. 3 and 5,) which is formed to simplify the apparatus, at the same time with two ports 6 and 7, located in the same rendering it more efficient; and to such. ends transverse plane and at a distance apart 7o 20 the invention consists in the various novel equal to about one-eighth of the circumferand peculiar combinations and arrangements ence of a circle. Upon the fixed end 5 of the of the several parts of the apparatus, all as water-pipe is mounted a rotary sleeve 8, havhereinafterfully described, and then pointed ing a tubular extension 9, which carries the out in the claims. injector-pipe 10. The opening of extension 9 2 5 I have illustrated a type of my invention is adapted to register with each of the ports in the accompanying drawings, wherein 6 and 7 when swung into proper position, so

Figure 1 is a view of a section of the appaas to admit the water to the injector-pipe 10. ratus, the plane of which section is vertical The parts are so adjusted that normally the and passes transversely through the apparainjector-pipe stands substantially upright, at

o tus. Fig. 2 is a view of a section of the apwhich time the water is cutoff from the same;

paratus, taken on a horizontal plane indicated but as the pipe is swung downwardly the first by line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged devalve or port 7 admits water to the injectortail view of one of the swinging injector-pipes pipe and continues to do so as long as the inprovided with brushes for acting upon the jector-pipe is held at an angle of about forty- 3 5 interior of the bottle and a deflector for the five degrees. Then as the injector-pipe is water issuing from the bottle, the View being still farther lowered the port 7 is closed and taken partly in longitudinal section. Fig. 4 no water flows through the injector until a is an enlarged view of an injector-pipe with horizontal position is reached, as shown in a bottle mounted thereon, the bottle and de- Fig. 5. The end of the portion 5 of the supo fiector being shown in section. Fig. 5 is a ply-pipe is closed by means of a suitable resimilar view toFig. 4, but with the injectormovable cap 11, which is applied after the pipe depressed into horizontal position, at rotary part 8 is mounted upon the pipe. which time the water flows into the bottle to Each of the set of injector-pipes 10 is alike wash it while it is rotated by the belt. Fig. 6 in construction and operation and each con- 5 5 is a detail sectional viewshowing the intermesists in an ordinary pipe, which is hinged, as

diate position of the injector-pipe and at the described, by means of the swinging extentime when the water is admitted thereto for sion or neck 9. The outer end of pipe 10 is rinsing the bottle. Fig. 7 is a View in crossformed with two oppositely-disposed notches section on a plane indicated by line 7 7, Fig. 12, within which is mounted a swinging brush 50 4. Fig. 8 is a detail view showing the use of 14, which turns on a pin 15, fixed across the a large-sized bottle in conjunction with the interior of the pipe. The brush being thus mounted across the open end of the pipe divides the bore and leaves a passage-wa y upon either side of the brush for the water to flow from, as indicated in Fig. 7. The end of the brush, which is hinged in the end of the pipe, is somewhat enlarged or broadened, so that at all times it .fills the notches 2 in the pipe, thereby insuring more certain action of the brush in its movements. To the back of the brush 1t is secured a spring 16, which extends down upon the side of the pipe and under a strap 17 upon the same. This affords a sliding connection between the spring and the pipe, and when a bottle is placed in inverted position upon the injector-pipe the brush 1% as it is depressed by the bottom of the bottle slides the spring is downwardly through the strap 17, the spring at the same time offering resistance enough to hold the brush in firm contact with the bottom of the bottle when the same is in position upon the injector-pipe, as is shown in Figs. 4- and :3, and is maintained in such contact while the bottle is rotated. In removing the bottle the shoulder at the neck of the bottle colliding with the brush pulls it upwardly into position shown in Fig. 3, in which position it is held by the spring and a stop 18 on the brush, which stop engages a fixed point on the pipe.

Each injector-pipe is provided with a longitudinally-extending brush 12), which extends over a sufficient length thereof to take in substantially the entire length of the bottle, so that when the bottle is rotated the brush may clean all of the interior of the same except the portion of the bottom which. is acted upon by the hinged brush 11, as described.

Each injector-pipe is provided with a defleetor plate or pan 15'), which is formed with flanged sides 20, with one end thereof opened, so as to readily discharge the water which falls into the deflector. The purpose of this deflector is to prevent the water discharged from the mouth of the bottle from wetting the operator as he depresses the injector-pipe carrying the bottle and, further, to direct such waste water onto the stationary brushes and the traveling belt, as hereinafter described. The deflector is mounted upon the pipe 10 by means of a perforation 2]., formed through the deflector, so that it presents a considerable extent of surface at all points around the pipe, to which it is secured by means of a collar 22, a washer 2'23 being placed upon the upper side of the deflector around the pipe for receiving the end of the bottle.

25 is an endless belt which is made, preferably, of canvas or some coarse fabric, and upon the upper surface of this belt the bottles rest by gravity upon their sides, so that the motion of the belt serves to rotate the bottles upon thcinjcctor-pipes. This belt 25 is mounted upon a drive-pulley 2! (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,) which pulley is driven by shaft 27, carrying at its outer end a fast and loose pulley 2S and 2t), respectivcly. The belt 25 also passes over an idle pulley or drum 30, turning on axle 31, which is mounted in bearings 32 33, which are adjustably mounted bymeans of brackets 3t and set-screws 3b and 37. By virtue of the adjustment of these hearings the shaft 31 may be moved toward and away from the driveshaft 27 in order to loosen or tighten the belt, upon the upper stretch of which the bottles rest.

For each of the swinging injector-pipes there is a curved guard 38, the upper end of which is secured to a fixed point on the rack 30, located a considerable distance above the belt. This guard 38 is preferably made of spring metal and at its lower free end carries a brush -'l -f) in such position as to engage the end of the bottle as it is rotated by the belt. This guard 38 is curved about on the same are as that described by the bottom of the bottle as its injector-pipe is swung down and up in the cleaning operation, so that through the greater part of its stroke the bottle will be prevented from becoming dislodged from the injector, in some instances the force of the water being sufficient to force the bottle off from the injector, so that such accident is guarded against by use of the guard-piece 38. Above the belt is arranged a series of horizontal brushes it, corresponding in number to the injector-pipes and each one is designed to engage the side of the bottle carried by the adjacent injector. Each brush -1 is fixed on the same plane with the brush el so that as the bottle is rotated by the belt it is cleaned throughout its entire length on the outside.

The brush l1 has its bristles of such length as to properly engage with the sides of a large-sized bottlefor instance, a quart bottle, such as H (shown in Fig. S)and in such case a straight injector-pipe 10 is employed. When, llUWUVOl', bottles of smaller size, such as t l, are to be cleaned, I substitute for the straight injector-pipe one that has a slight bend in it, as at qt-t in Fig. 2, so that the smaller bottle is carried farther in toward the brush 4:1 in order that its bristles may pmperly engage it, for it is obvious that if a straight injector-pipe be used with the size of bottle shown in Fig. 2 the bottle would not come in contact with the brush 4]. and the machine would thus fail to do its work. The brushes 1:1. are preferably secured by their backs to cross-pieces 4.5 by means of screws to, so that they maybe readily detached and replaced. if preferred, the cross-bars 4.5 may be secured toan adjustable frame, so as to adjust the brushes in the horizontal plane to allow for the wear on the brushes or to accommodatedif'lferentsizesof bottles. Instead of having the brushes -.l;1 in one piece they may be divided, so that the portion thereof which cleans the head and neck of the larger bottle may be removed in cleaning a small bottle.

In order to keep the stationary brushes 41 41 thoroughly wet, likewise the belt 25, which, in fact, serves to clean the side of the bottle as it rotates it by frictional contact, I so arrange the deflector 19 that as the operator depresses by hand the injector-pipe carrying a bottle any water which is injected into the bottle through the port 7 will be emptied from the deflector onto the brush 4:1 and the belt, as indicated at 47 in Fig. 1. A portion of the waste water thus discharged in the downward movement of the injector-pipes will find its Way to the brush 10, which is thereby kept sufficiently wet to enable it to clean the bottom of the bottle. Water is also supplied to the brushes 4:0 and 41 and the belt from the bottles 43, which after being removed from the injector-pipe are placed in the rack 39 above these devices with their mouths down, so that the water dripping from them falls down upon the brushes on the belt.

I11 order to limit the upward movement of the swinging injector-pipes, so that they do not pass a vertical position in the backward stroke, I provide a fixed rod 48, which, being secured to the vessel 1, extends back of the line of injectors, so as to engage them when moved into vertical position and prevent further backward movement, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The injector-pipes are limited in their downward movement when the bottles which they carry come in contact with the belt, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the bottles rest by their own weight upon the belt, and thus insures sufficient friction between the bottles and the belt to cause the latter to rotate thereon with a positive action.

From the foregoing description the operation of the machine will be readily understood. The operator stands at the left of the machine in Fig. 1, takes a bottle in inverted position, and pushes it down over the injector-pipe 10 until the mouth of the bottle rests against the washer 23. This places the hinged brush let in close contact with the interior of the bottom of the bottle, and the brush 13 at the same time makes close contact with the side of the bottle upon its interior. The operator then swings the injector-pipe from him downwardly, and when it stands in the posi tion shown in Fig. 6 and also in Fig. 1 the water is admitted to the bottle through port 7 and, pouring from the bottle, is received by the deflector 19 and discharged upon the brushes and belt. The further downward movement of the injector-pipe cuts off the water from port 7 and until the horizontal position is reached, when the port 6, which is considerably smaller than port 7, is opened and a copious supply of water is injected into the bottle, which, resting upon the belt by its own weight and part of the weight of the injector-pipe, is rapidly rotated. As the water is discharged from the mouth of the bottle it is received by the deflector and diverted into the bottom of the tub 1, so that at all times the water is prevented from reaching the operator and wetting him. The bottle being left in a horizontal position a sufficient length of time to wash it, the operator draws upwardly the injector-pipe and holds it for a while in intermediate position, so that the water flowing now through the larger port 7 rinses out the bottle, carrying out from it the water that has been used in washing it, so that by the time the operator has drawn back the injector-pipe into Vertical position the bottle is thoroughly rinsed and made clean. After being thus cleaned the bottle is taken from the in jector-pipe and is placed with its mouth down in the rack 39 in order that the water may drip from the bottle down upon the brushes and belt to help keep them wet. An operator in manipulating this machine can readily operate at least six of the,

injector-pipes, as will be understood by refence to Figs. 1 and 2, the latter figure showing six injector-pipes. Normally the injector-pipes stand in upright positions, so that the operator taking a bottle in each hand can place one upon each of the two injectors at the end and quickly depress them into horizontal position, after which he can place in the same way a bottle upon each of thenext two injectors and depress them into horizontal position and then do the same with the two remaining injectors. Returning then to the first pair he can raise them into the intermediate position until the bottles are thoroughly rinsed, and then pulling them back into vertical position and removing the bottles can replace them by two other bottles and again depress the injectors, so that they assume the horizontal position and undergo the washing process. This operation can be repeated with the other pairs of injectors, the bottles on which in the meantime will have had sufficient time to become thoroughly washed.

I wish to be understood as not limiting my invention to the specific construction herein shown, as it is manifest that various modifications may be made in the same without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe, a swinging injector-pipe connected therewith, a series of ports or valves located in the connection between said pipes and opened seriatim by the swinging adjustment of said in j ector-pipe, so that water may be intermittently supplied to the injector-pipe as it is moved through its range of swinging movements.

2. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a water-supply pipe provided with two ports or valves, a swinging injectorpipe mounted thereon and having the water supplied thereto from one of said ports when swung into one position to wash the bottle and having the water supplied thereto from the other said port when swung into another position to rinse the bottle, said injector-pipe being adapted to receive upon its end and support the bottle in inverted position.

3. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe, a set of swinging injector-pipes swinging on a common horizontal axis and adapted to receive upon their ends and support thereon the bottles in inverted position, said injector-pipes adapted to normally stand in upright position for conveniently placing the bottles thereon, and to be swung away from the operator and depressed into a substantially horizontal position, each of said injector-pipes being provided with valves for admitting water to the same when depressed into horizontal position for washing the bottle and for again admitting water to said in jector-pipe when the same is swung into a position between the horizontal and upright positions for rinsing the bottle before it is returned to upright position.

4. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe, a swinging injector-pipe adapted to project within the bottle to supply it with water and a deflector mounted upon the injector-pipe below the mouth of the bottle when placed in position 011 said injector-pipe for diverting the stream of waste water flowing from the mouth of the bottle when said injector-pipe is depressed.

5. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe and a swinging injector-pipe adapted to receive upon its end and support thereon the bottle in inverted position, a suitable frame and a curved guard for preventing the bottle from being dislodged from the injector-pipe as the same is swung upon its axis.

6. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe and a swinging injector-pipe adapted to receive upon its end and support thereon the bottle in inverted position, a suitable frame and a curved springguard for preventing the bottle from being dislodged from the injector-pipe as the same is swung upon its axis. v

7. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe and a swinging injector-pipe adapted to receive upon its end and support thereon the bottle in inverted position, a suitable frame and a curved springguard for preventing the bottle from being dislodged from the injector-pipe as the same is swung upon its axis, said guard being made fast at one end with the other end free and a brush mounted upon the free end of said guard for engaging the end of the bottle.

8. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe and a swinging in jector-pipe adapted to receive upon its end and support thereon the bottle in inverted position, said injector-pipe adapted to normally stand in upright position and adapted to be swung into horizontal position and a valve for supplying water to said injectorpipe as the same is swung into horizontal position, a suitable frame, a traveling belt for engaging the side of the bottle to rotate it when said injector-pipe is swung into horizontal position, cleaning devices or brushes arranged adjacent the belt for engaging the exterior of the bottle, and a deflector mounted upon said injector-pipe below the mouth of the bottle when the same is in place upon the injector-pipe, said deflector being adapted to receive the water flowing from the bottle as the injector-pipe is swung downwardly and to deliver such water to said cleaning devices or brushes during such downward movement of the injector-pipe.

9. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a supply-pipe, a swinging injector-pipe adapted to project within the bottle to supply water thereto, a large and a small port controlled by said injector-pipe, the small port being opened to admit the water to the injector-pipe when the same is swung into position to wash the bottle and the large port being opened when the injectorpipe is moved into position to rinse the bottle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

10. In a machine for washing bottles, the

combination of an injector-pipe adapted to project within the bottle and to supply water thereto, a brush hinged to the outer end of said injector-pipe, and a spring secured to said brush by one end and having its other end attached to said injector-pipe by means of a sliding connection, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of an injector-pipe open at its outer end and formed at such end with two oppositely-disposed notches, a brush pivoted in the open end of said injector-pipe and adapted to fit within said notches, and a spring for normally holding the brush practically in line with said pipe substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

12. In a machine for washing bottles, the combination of a suitable frame, a traveling belt for engaging the sides of the bottles and rotating them, stationary brushes arranged above said belt, and a rack located above said belt and brushes for receiving the washed bottles in inverted position whereby the water dripping therefrom may be discharged upon said belt and brushes.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 6th day of December, 1897, in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

ALEXANDER BOSANKO.

\Vituesses:

SAMUEL M. OHEsNUT, A. M. HAYES.

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